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Megawatt-Level Average Power Enhancement Cavities for Ultrashort Pulses

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In this chapter, thermal effects and their mitigation in enhancement cavities are discussed. It starts with an introduction in Sect. 4.1 on how thermal lenses affect the operation of enhancement cavities. In Sect. 4.2, a measure for the thermal sensitivity and a model for its calculation of arbitrary cavities will be introduced. Possibilities for mitigation of thermal effects using custom optics are reviewed in Sect. 4.3. Using the apparatus presented in Sect. 4.4, experiments targeting the power scaling of enhancement cavities were conducted, which are described in Sect. 4.5. The achievable power level in these experiments is limited by aberrations, which are examined in Sect. 4.6. The chapter is based on Carstens et al., (Opt Lett 39, 2014, [1]).

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    These values were reached using mirrors supplied by Layertec GmbH, Mellingen.

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Carstens, H. (2018). Megawatt-Level Average Power Enhancement Cavities for Ultrashort Pulses. In: Enhancement Cavities for the Generation of Extreme Ultraviolet and Hard X-Ray Radiation. Springer Theses. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-94009-0_4

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